First British astronaut to blast off to the ISS on 15 Dec 2015

KAZAKHSTAN Baikonur Cosmodrome -- 15 Dec 2015 -- Liftoff...Major Tim Peake - the first official British astronaut to visit the ISS - launches off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in a Russian TMA-19M spacecraft with commander Yuri Malenchenko from ROSCOSMOS and NASA astronaut Tim Kopra. The trio are launching into space to the International Sapce Station today and will spend six months working and living on the International Space Station -- Picture by Joel Kowsky/Atlas Photo Archive/NASA